Our garbage can disappeared
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (52150)
Staten Island, New York
March 16, 2021 6:16pm CST
Hubby took out the garbage on Sunday night. Monday is collection day. On Monday morning I looked out the window to see if the garbage can was outside. I usually bring it in if it's outside. It wasn't.
I thought hubby put it in the garage but I didn't go check. When he came home I asked him if he brought the can back inside and he told me he didn't. We double checked to make sure and it wasn't there.
We went outside and checked across the street as sometimes our can ends up there when it's windy and it was very windy Sunday. It wasn't there. We walked around the area to see if it ended up somewhere else on the street but it was nowhere to be found. I thought either the garbage men had thrown it out with the trash or someone had taken our garbage can. Either of these scenarios would be weird if true.
This morning I went to look around again. I spotted a garbage can laying on the ground behind our neighbors cactus plant. It had the same (brand) name as our other two garbage cans and seemed to look like ours so I took it. I wonder why I didn't notice it yesterday evening.
What I found weird was that inside it there were lots of dried leaves, dirt, and some water. Wonder how the heck it got in there. As far as I know it was not raining Sunday into Monday. And the can was not filthy when hubby took it outside Sunday night. Could it be that the garbage can is not ours after all? When he comes home I will show him the can to confirm that it's ours.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
17 Mar 21
You want me to be Sherlock Lena? Or is that Watson that has the pipe?
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
17 Mar 21
Our next door neighbors don't seem like the type to steal garbage cans. If this is indeed our can I wonder why they didn't notice it on their property. And if they did, I wonder why they didn't put it out on the street.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
17 Mar 21
@MALUSE Oops. Thanks for the correction. Holmes is indeed the surname.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
17 Mar 21
What do you mean by that?
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
@nela13 Nope. They are not the same. No one has a can like ours from what I've seen.
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@nela13 (59367)
• Portugal
18 Mar 21
@lovebuglena I mean if your garbage can is equal to the ones your neighbors use.
@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
Turns out that garbage can is not ours. I showed it to hubby and though the (brand) name was the same ours is lighter.
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@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Mar 21
That is an interesting mystery to solve and sounds like someone needed a can to put their garden trash in and then either hid it from you or made it looked like a big wind blew it away,
@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Mar 21
@lovebuglena then I must ask Did you finally find your own?
@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
The good thing is that this can is not ours. I didn't really wanna get in there and clean all the dirt and stuff. The can was pretty nasty.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Mar 21
@RasmaSandra Yep. I wrote a discussion about it. 
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
17 Mar 21
Does your garbage can not have your house number marked on it? Here in NZ, garbage bins are marked with the house numbers so it would not be interchanged with that of neighbors.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
Nope but that is something I am considering doing. Some of our neighbors do that.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Mar 21
We have the city bins for trash. We happen to have an extra black one for regular trash. Normally we only put out 1, but sometimes 2. So once I was looking outside and noticed after the trash guys left, there was only 1 bin there when I knew we put out 2. I didn't realize til later that our neighbor across the street took one of the bins and filled it with his trash . . . he left it on his side until the trash guys picked up over there . . . and then he brought our trash can back 
. It wasn't cool that he did that without our permission - but it was just that one time.
. It wasn't cool that he did that without our permission - but it was just that one time.@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Mar 21
@lovebuglena He does weird things from time to time - but always temporarily, no harm done.
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
Wow! At least he was nice enough to bring it back to you.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
20 Mar 21
@lovebuglena I was wondering that too
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@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Mar 21
It was not our can in the end. But I wonder how in the world it got to where I found it. Could the extreme wind have blown it there? Or did someone put it there?
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Mar 21
That does seem very odd. When the big wheeled bins were first introduced ours got stolen from on the verge. However, they took it before it had been emptied and it had a leg of pork in it that had gone off. Serve them right. I hope it stunk them out. 
@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
Can't believe people would steal someone else's trash.1 person likes this
@lovebuglena (52150)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Mar 21
It is not ours so we didn't keep it. Ours is lighter. And hubby confirmed it.
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